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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher.

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Linkwood Distillery: 15 Years Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

10,000 Birds

Even though a 2013 petition by the Royal Society of Protection of Birds failed to convince the Scottish parliament to make it official, the campaign to make the Golden Eagle Scotland’s national bird continues.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

Here is the press release, which explains why they are trying to do this. This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.), Through its campaign, www.ExposeAnimalAbusers.org , the animal protection organization is promoting model legislation that state legislatures could enact.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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Below is a press release about the mailing. In addition to heaps of information at www.RPAforAll.org about RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry, there is now a current list of all 50 governors with address and their state's LGU. Another went out last Friday. Thanks and best wishes!

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken. It’s a lot harder to ignore conservation campaigns to save habitat when you’ve seen the ‘photographic record’ of what happens when you do.

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